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By Jack Joseph Smith

Pittsburgh's Larry the Lucky In 1965 was in Palm Springs California When a cloths cleaning store blew up. The Merchandise was scattered yet in the dust he found Allen Lad's suit in tact Some- time later he visited the Palm Springs Hardware store Allen Lad's wife was operating And never seeing Larry the Lucky before, she begun weep- ing upon his entrance

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This page turns Larry the Lucky into a minor folk figure, building a strange anecdote out of explosion, chance recovery, and an uncanny public recognition.

The scan-verified page feels half tall tale and half legend. The explosion and the rediscovered suit already push the story toward improbability, but the emotional charge arrives when Allen Lad's wife begins weeping at Larry's entrance despite never having seen him before.

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The anecdote runs on luck and salvage: a cleaning store 'blew up', and in the scattered dust Larry finds 'Allen Lad's suit in tact'. The reach for prose realism - dated to 1965, placed in Palm Springs - makes the final wordless recognition, the widow weeping at a stranger's entrance, feel like a small miracle smuggled into a true story.